Author: William Knight Northall

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Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781330809822

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Excerpt from Macbeth Travestie This Travestie was written for the Olympic Theatre, New York, and was first played at that establishment on the 16th of October, 1843. It met with great success, having drawn crowded houses for several weeks. This success was undoubtedly owing, in a great measure, to the inimitable acting of Mr. Mitchell, who performed Macbeth in his own peculiar style - half tragic, half comic, half Macready, and half funny Mitchell. The vision of the wooden dagger, and the ludicrous horror with which Macbeth looks upon his bloody hands after the murder of Duncan, were points that (to use a technical phrase) told amazingly, and proved the manager to be also the true artist. He was ahmirably supported by his highly talented company, amongst which Mrs. Booth deserves honourable mention for her performance of Lady Macbeth. Throughout she ably maintained that comic gravity so essential to burlesque acting. The author of "Macbeth Travestie" lays no claim to any literary pretensions respecting the piece - his effort was merely to devote a few leisure hours to aid in developing the talents of the Olympic company, and thereby in a very small degree to be a contributor to the "laugh-and-grow-fat" stream which is continually flowing from that temple of Mirth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Macbeth Travestie (Classic Reprint) written by William Knight Northall and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macbeth Travestie This Travestie was written for the Olympic Theatre, New York, and was first played at that establishment on the 16th of October, 1843. It met with great success, having drawn crowded houses for several weeks. This success was undoubtedly owing, in a great measure, to the inimitable acting of Mr. Mitchell, who performed Macbeth in his own peculiar style - half tragic, half comic, half Macready, and half funny Mitchell. The vision of the wooden dagger, and the ludicrous horror with which Macbeth looks upon his bloody hands after the murder of Duncan, were points that (to use a technical phrase) told amazingly, and proved the manager to be also the true artist. He was ahmirably supported by his highly talented company, amongst which Mrs. Booth deserves honourable mention for her performance of Lady Macbeth. Throughout she ably maintained that comic gravity so essential to burlesque acting. The author of "Macbeth Travestie" lays no claim to any literary pretensions respecting the piece - his effort was merely to devote a few leisure hours to aid in developing the talents of the Olympic company, and thereby in a very small degree to be a contributor to the "laugh-and-grow-fat" stream which is continually flowing from that temple of Mirth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.